Project NFF - Nano Form Factor
By Jeffrey L. Stephenson
Posted on November 9, 2003
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Front shot of drive bay module. I did not install the slim-floppy for several reasons. It can be added later. The front mounted ports are 2xUSB and a PS2 keyboard plug. The J-Rex has several unique features for an industrial board. It uses full-size SDRAM sticks and also uses a standard 20-pin ATX power connector.

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Backside of drive module. The black aluminum CPU heat sink is shown. All of the slim-line to regular size adapters are shown. The two brown slots (plugs) is where the daughter board mounts to the board. Not shown; below the VGA and serial plug is a compact flash slot which I have used to boot the system with an IBM microdrive.

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Now we're talking. All four pieces to the puzzle gather together

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First the drive bay is inserted, culminating with an outstanding SNAP feedback sound.

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The speaker module goes into the top slot. SNAP! The power supply now hangs down over the J-Rex.

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The sunglasses, errr...LCD module goes into the next to top slot. SNAP!

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